Railway Ministry Organizes Conference on Wagon Development

Inaugurating the Conference, Member (Rolling Stock), Railway Board, Shri Rajesh Agrawal said the aim is that 45 per cent of total freight movement in the country should be by rail. Read more

Several Steps Taken by Indian Railways to Improve Freight Transportation Competitiveness

Several steps have been taken to progressively upgrade Indian Railway’s competitive edge over other modes of transport, including a differential tariff regime for specifically addressing situations arising out of skewed… Read more

Parivartan Sangoshthi: PMO Sets Stiff Targets for Indian Railways

Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has set stiff performance targets for Indian Railways (IR). Vision 2024 was tabled at the two-day brainstorming session of IR’s officers named Parivartan Sangoshthi. Read more

SER : REMARKABLE GROWTH IN SER’S FREIGHT TRAFFIC

South Eastern Railway is continuing to maintain its remarkable growth in freight loading and earnings. During the first eight months of the current financial year i.e. April-November of 2019-20, South… Read more

IR Needs to Focus on Higher Internal Revenue Generation: CAG Report

Analysing the national transport behemoth’s numbers both bottom-up and top-down, the CAG concluded that Indian Railways (IR) could not have shown a surplus of earnings (of Rs 1,665.61 crore) over… Read more

CAG on Railways: Declining Revenue Surplus, 95% of Freight Profits Used to Subsudize Passenger Ops Losses

Operating Ratio of 98.44 per cent was the worst in the last ten years. Indian Railways, in fact, would have ended up with a negative balance of ₹5,676.29 crore instead… Read more

Zonal Performance: Midyear Review Throws Up Surprises – ER, NER, NFR Top Results, CR, NR, NCR Score Lowest

An extensive mid-year performance review of Indian Railways' zones conducted by the Railway Board threw up several surprises. Most zones have missed their proportionate targets for originating goods or passenger… Read more

CR: PCCM Holds Meeting With Parcel Lease Holders

Shri B.K. Dadabhoy, Principal Chief Commercial Manager, Central Railway held a meeting with major leaseholders of parcel cargo express trains, parcel vans and SLRs. Installation of Weigh bridges, feasibility of… Read more

Amazon Transporting e-Commerce Parcels via Mumbai and Sealdah Rajdhanis in Pilot Project

Amazon India has been provided 2.5 tonnes space in the SLR/Break Van under Guard’s charge for loading/unloading of consignments, in 12314/12313 New Delhi-Sealdah Rajdhani Express and 12952/12951 New Delhi-Mumbai Rajdhani… Read more

SER’s freight loading up nine per cent yoy

SER sees robust freight loading performance. For the period April-October of 2019-20, SER loaded 96.10 million tonnes of freight as against 88.38 million tonnes loaded yoy. Read more